Kolkata: Vidyasagar Setu will be closed to vehicles from 6 am to 2 pm on Sunday for the ongoing repair work of the bridge including replacement of stay and holding cables and bearings. Work is being undertaken in phases by the Hooghly River Bridge Commissioners. Vehicles coming along AJC Bose Road from Zeerut Island will…
Kolkata: The city remained warm and humid a day after monsoon onset even as the Met office predicted scanty rain in and around Kolkata during the next one week. While maximum temperature reached 35.3°C in Kolkata on Saturday, the minimum was around 28.6°C. Conditions remain favourable for further advancement of southwest monsoon into the remaining…
Kolkata: RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra on Saturday met chief minister Suvendu Adhikari at Nabanna. In a Facebook post, Adhikari said that Malhotra met him on a courtesy call. Sources said they discussed enhancing cooperation to push development initiatives in Bengal.The visit assumes significance as the budget session of the assembly will start on June 18,…
Kolkata: CM Suvendu Adhikari and most of his newly appointed ministers attended a training programme titled “Mantrider Pathshala” on intricacies of running the Bengal govt administration at NSATI in Salt Lake on Saturday. Addressing the ministers, the CM said they must not keep work pending and called on them to keep files moving.“The CM wanted…
Kolkata: In West Bengal’s power corridors, few names wielded as much influence while remaining outside public gaze as Sumit Roy. On Saturday, that anonymity evaporated while the man vanished.A pre-dawn police operation at Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee‘s Kalighat residence thrust Roy — Banerjee’s long-time aide and personal secretary — into the centre of…
Kolkata: Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday replaced two more rebel MPs from key party posts — barely a week after a sweeping organisational overhaul — as she moved to consolidate control amid the continuing erosion of the party’s senior ranks.At a meeting at her Kalighat residence, Arnab Banerjee — a former South Kolkata district…
Kolkata: Hemen Mazumdar’s masterpiece “Saqi” is a major highlight of the upcoming Collectors Choice event hosted by AstaGuru. This exceptional oil on board work, which represents a shift from the artist’s celebrated portfolio of wet sari series, carries an expected price between Rs 1.2 crore and Rs 2 crore.Regarded as an exceptionally complex masterpiece to…
Kanksa: Two persons were killed in a lightning strike at Gopalpur Uttarpara in Kanksa, West Burdwan on Saturday afternoon around 2 pm, reports Mohammad Asif.According to police, the two were sitting near a field when lightning struck them. They were taken to hospital, where the medical officer declared them dead.The deceased have been identified as…
Kolkata: Bengal CID’s special investigation team (SIT) is set to make Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and fellow party MLAs Kunal Ghosh (Beleghata) and Madan Mitra (Kamarhati) sit face-to-face during their interrogation in the Signgate case at Bhabani Bhawan on Sunday.This will be the second time when CID will grill Abhishek after Thursday’s 5-hour-30-minute…
